Buttoner



(N Model.)

0. J. HOLMGREN. BUTTONERQ No. 602,848. Patented Apr. 26, 1898.

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CARL J. HOLMGREN, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

BUTTONER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 602,848, dated April 26, 1898.

Application filed June 10, 1897. Serial No. 640,181- (No model.)

T at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL J. HOLMGREN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttoners; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to buttoners; and the object is to provide a simple, convenient, and effective device for fastening corsets, putt-ing on shoes and buttoning the same.

To these ends the novelty consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a combined corset and shoe fasteningdevice embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section of the same in position for engaging the opposite meeting stays of a corset. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the position of the implement in the act of fastening the corset.

1 represents a handle-bar, one end of which terminates in the usual-shaped shoe-horn 2, and its opposite end is formed with parallel arms I 4, the outer ends of which are formed into an integral shoe 5, provided with a transverse orifice 6 and a V-shaped recess 7. The plane face of said shoe 5 is set atan inclination or diagonally with reference to its parallel arms 4 4:.

9 represents a lever fulcrumed about midway of its length between the parallel arms 4: 4 on the rivet 10, and one end of said lever 9 terminates in the usual-shaped button-hook 11, while the opposite end is formed with an integral toe 12, arranged approximately at a right angle to said lever and having its inner edge 13 beveled at an acute angle to the body of the lever.

14 represents an automatic trigger formed with the two parallel crescent-shaped arms 15 15, extending on each side of the lever 9 and fulcrumed thereto by a rivet 16, extendin g transversely through said arms and lever, and 17 represents an integral cross-brace extending across the top of the lever and forming a stop to limit the upward movement of said trigger.

The forward ends of the parallel arms 15 15 extend on opposite sides of the toe 12 and terminate in fingers 18 18, while the opposite ends are connected by an integral yoke 19, extending between the lever 9 and the parallel arms of the handle 1.

In operation the toe 12 is first inserted in the eye of the loop 20 of the corset-stay 21, which operation pushes the fingers 18 18 of the trigger 14L upwardly, as shown, until the brace 17 comes in contact with the outer edge of the lever 9 and limits its movement. The shoe 5 is then adjusted to the stud 22 on the opposite stay 23, so that the orifice 6 extends over and partially encompasses the head 24 of said stud. The handle 1 is then thrown over to draw the toe 12 up to the shoe 5, dur-' ing which operation the walls of the V-shaped recess 7 in the end of the shoe engage the shank of the stud 22 and guide the eye of the loop 20 over the head of the stud, so as to encompass the shank. The outer ends of the handle and the lever are then grasped in the same hand, plier-like, and the whole moved forward until the yoke of the trigger 14: is pressed outwardly by coming in contact with the handle 1, which causes the fingers 18 18 to abut against the face of the loop 20 and Withdraw the toe 12 from its eye. This frees the implement from the stays and allows the loop 20 to draw back and lock on the stud 22.

The manner of using the shoe-horn and the button-hook are so well known as to require no further description.

Although I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the several elements of my invention, I do not desire to be confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be made as clearly fall within the scope of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s-

of said toe, substantially as shown and dem scribed.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CARL J. HOLHGREN.

Witnesses:

FRANK H. CASTNER, BERNARD B.- BRETT. 

